Famous Quotes

"Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition."

Marc Andreessen on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Marc Andreessen

• "When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me."

• "Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world."

• "Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon."

• "Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't."

• "The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content."